You say this:

> It does not take a deliberate will behind something for it to be pulled toward this sort of inequality, and presenting it as if that's what's happened suggests that if we could only defeat the Evil People who "engineered" it this way, we could make it better.

...but then also this:

> ...to inhibit the flow of money upward from the 99% to the 1%. It's hard, it will take a long time, the people with the most wealth and power will fight us every step of the way...

So maybe there are "evil" people and deliberation at work, and it's not just emergent complexity?